Questions tagged [push]

I am planning some app as a part of our product. One part of the app will be to receive push messages.
Sometimes it's months between uses of the app and, by experience with other apps I've used, it ...

I need to work on android mobile push notification. I have recently gone through some of the tutorial on google. I would like to summarize
the my understanding first
Developer registers the app with ...

With WebSockets, when clients should be notified that data changed, I've seen two approaches:
the server pushes the data modifications directly within the push;
or the server pushes no data, and the ...

I have a seemingly standard task of sending push notifications to Apple devices from a server written in Java. I have never done that in the past, so I went to tutorials and Apple documentation.
1) ...

I need to show a refreshable/searchable list of items and update/add-to it whenever an event is published. How do I make sure no events are lost while refreshing/searching is happening?
Some sort of ...

It seems commonsense nowadays that polling is a bad practice and pushing is the way to go when developing mobile applications that require to constantly receive data from a remote server.
All major ...

I practically never see any web application where server pushes messages to the client. While pushing messages from server to client is hugely used in multiplayer games, why this model is so underused ...

During times of heavy development, the database schema changes both rapidly and continuously, and by the time our weekly push to the beta build comes around, the schema has changed so much that the ...

I'm interested to know the implementation of the 'new message' in gmail for example. I know that ajax is used, but what else it is used on the server and client side. Can you explain me the scenario?
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